Desktop News Ticker

Question

Hi Friends

Does any one have code to develop desktop news ticker in c# or else please send me any helpfull link to develope the same. I need a scrolling links on my desptop and when any of the link is clicked, it should navigate to that particular page. Thanks in advance.

Niradhip Chakraborty · Answer

Check Out the custom control that implements a news ticker. Add a new class to your project then paste this code: using System; using System.Text; using System.Drawing; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Windows.Forms; class NewsTicker : Panel { private Timer mScroller; // Scroll timer private int mOffset; // Offset of scrolled text private string mText; // Text to scroll private Size mPixels; // Width of text in pixels private Bitmap mBuffer; // Double-buffering buffer public NewsTicker() { mScroller = new Timer(); mScroller.Interval = 30; mScroller.Enabled = false; mScroller.Tick += DoScroll; } [Browsable(true)] public override string Text { get { return mText; } set { mText = value; mScroller.Enabled = mText.Length > 0; mPixels = TextRenderer.MeasureText(mText this.Font); mOffset = this.Width; } } private void DoScroll(object sender EventArgs e) { // Adjust offset and paint mOffset -= 1; if (mOffset Invalidate(); } protected override void OnPaintBackground(PaintEventArgs e) { // Do nothing } protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e) { if (mBuffer == null || mBuffer.Width != this.Width || mBuffer.Height != this.Height) mBuffer = new Bitmap(this.Width this.Height); Graphics gr = Graphics.FromImage(mBuffer); Brush bbr = new SolidBrush(this.BackColor); Brush fbr = new SolidBrush(this.ForeColor); gr.FillRectangle(bbr new Rectangle(0 0 this.Width this.Height)); gr.DrawString(mText this.Font fbr mOffset 0); e.Graphics.DrawImage(mBuffer 0 0); bbr.Dispose(); fbr.Dispose(); gr.Dispose(); } } Build the project then drop a NewsTicker from the Toolbox onto the form. Set the Text property in the designer and the text should immediately start ticking.

raja ram · Answer

Hi I have gone through the code. its works perfectly fine. But when i am trying to conver the same in vb.net But its not working. Please provide me the same in VB.Net.

Revathi · Answer

Hi The solution provided works great. I just have some trouble displaying the ticker news in different color. For example some urgent news need to be displayed in red while the rest in a different color within the same ticker. Really hope someone can guide me on this. Thanks alot in advance.